New employee orientation at Monterey Bay Aquarium

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus I dunno, it was part of our orientation haha ‘everybody squish a moon jelly’

[rednikki@toot.boston]

@skinnylatte When I worked across the street from the Aquarium I went to the jellies exhibit once a week or so at lunch just to stand there and calm down. (I don’t know if the full jellies exhibit is still there or not.)

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus we were supposed to describe what it felt like

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@rednikki there are Black Sea nettles now. Those are my fave. And the deep sea bloody jellies that are so new they don’t have names

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Top view of an actual shark tank

[pagrus@tears.intherain.club]

@[email protected] so cute! like little kittens

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus one of them is named Carl. I don’t know which one

[pineywoozle@masto.ai]

@skinnylatte #WetWednesday or #Squishtodon @curiousrobot

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@Pineywoozle @curiousrobot I like those

[lhauser@mefi.social]

@skinnylatte Do you guys have an arch tank for your jellies? We visited the new improved Seattle Aquarium a few weeks ago and you can walk under and through the jelly stream. Very cool.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@lhauser no! That sounds so great I’ll have to go

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

We don’t have corn holes. We have coral hole

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

The view on my walk to work when I’m down there

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Sticking my phone through the holes of a fence. And finding a (I think) Brandt’s cormorant colony

#Birding

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Kind of unfair that a random photo out of the railings has birds and otters in it

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

I get to sea the open sea exhibit before we open! A sure way to know we haven’t opened is there are bubbles in the water

[champagne@masto.ai]

@skinnylatte why do the bubbles only run when the aquarium is closed?

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@Champagne no one will be able to see the exhibit if the bubbles are there. They run over night I guess to oxygenate the water and remind the fish that there is a large glass there

The exhibit is supposed to evoke a sense that you are in the middle of the ocean. It’s very majestic

[johnallsopp@indieweb.social]

@skinnylatte I remember going there in 2004, staying close by, the Aquarium really and truly amazing. And sea otters just hanging out!

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@Champagne https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/open-sea-cam